Property People

In this episode of Property People, Saam chats to Kazeem Alli-Balogun (aka Kazy).

Kazeem is a property investor, owner of PropertyByKazy and the Founder of LOCO management, a project management company specialising in property renovations.

Over the past 5 years he has been investing and actively managing property renovations in and around London. Through his experience and advice from those within the industry, Kazy identified a strategy that is best suited to his short-term objective of increasing capital.

Having successfully completed several projects that all achieved considerable ROI’s, Kazy then began to source capital from private investors with fixed ROI’s. These partnerships have proven to be very successful.

🔥 LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE to discover how Kazy got started in property and achieved:

-  35+ projects completed
-  £12 Million + GDV
-  Co-founded a £1 Million turn over R2R brand
-  £1 Million + private equity funding raised and returned
-  £5 Million + assets under management

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This episode is sponsored by Merryoaks.

Merryoaks provides growth-based property finance advisory for investors and developers with the aim of helping you fund your next project and be part of your ongoing growth to bigger, better, and more aspirational deals.

Find out more about Merryoaks here: https://www.merryoaks.com/

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Saam has 20 years of experience in residential & commercial property, sales, lettings, management and finance. Saam was a founding member of a Property Finance Provider which grew its fund from £0 to £300m. He also founded Merryoaks Property Finance in 2021 to provide bespoke property finance to investors & developers and launched Property People in 2018 to connect with investors and developers across the country to share valuable information and stories.

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In this episode of Property People, Saam sits down with Uliana Kuzmis, Deputy Managing Director at Hampshire Trust Bank's Development Finance team.

With over 20 years of experience in underwriting, development finance, and credit risk, Uliana is a highly accomplished and energetic credit and real estate specialist. She has led her team to win the Best Development Finance Provider Award at the Business Moneyfacts Awards in both 2023 and 2024 and has been recognised as a Power List winner by Bridging & Commercial and an Elite Women Award winner in 2024.

Uliana's leadership style centres on investing in her team, helping them become the best versions of themselves, and trusting them to deliver exceptional results. Passionate about creating a positive and supportive environment, she prioritises mental health and wellness, ensuring her team is equipped with the tools to look after themselves. In this episode, Uliana shares insights into her approach to leadership, her journey in the finance sector, and how Hampshire Trust Bank is striving to reach new heights.

🎧LISTEN to find out more about Uliana’s inspiring career and what every property developer needs to know about development finance.

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This episode is sponsored by PLMD Group.

PLMD Group is made up of PLMD Development, PLMD Estate Management and PLMD Capital.

PLMD Group provide expertise in real estate development combined with asset management. With more than 70 Build to Rent(BTR) properties and £20M+ assets under management, their extensive knowledge of local planning policies have resulted in a strong track record turning liabilities into valuable assets.

PLMD also help UK & overseas investors looking for value-add properties and ground-up green developments in the UK residential market, build to rent sector in London & its suburbs.

The group delivers value through a fusion of experience, innovative design, imagination, hands-on management and sustainable resources.

Find out more about PLMD Group here.

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In this episode of Property People, Saam chats to Duncan Kreeger - Founder & CEO of TAB, serial property investor and entrepreneur.

Duncan started his first company at the age of 17 and has since built and sold a £120m valuation business, managed over £400m of private capital, completed over £2bn worth of secured loans and managed a team of over 100 staff. He is embracing technology and opening up real estate investment opportunities to everyone.

Duncan founded TAB, a property finance and investment firm in February 2018 after seeing a need for a lender that understood the requirements of bridging loans and had the experience to transact swiftly while taking a prudent approach to risk. As a result, he designed TAB’s lending model to have the flexibility to consider the wider spectrum of a borrower’s circumstances.

TAB Market enables new and existing investors to access a range of lending and property investments, providing investors with an opportunity to invest in UK property and benefit even if they don’t have the usual means or know how.

🔎 Find out more about TAB here
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In this episode of Property People, Saam speaks to Marc Turnier - Founder and MD of Arcvelop, a Chartered UK Architect, Winner at the Property Investor Awards 2023, and property development mentor.

Marc has worked at some of the UK’s most renowned and largest architectural practices, Foster + Partners and Allies and Morrison, where he delivered landmark mixed use, commercial and residential schemes from £50m to £150m GDV across the World. He has delivered schemes for some of the largest global developers in London, Dubai, Australia and Valencia.

In recent years he has contracted as Design and Development Director for various high net worth Private Equity Property Companies in Central London, focusing primarily on commercial and residential conversions of medium to large value-add schemes ranging in value from £0.5m to £30m GDV.

Through Marc’s experience and expertise in design-led conversions, Arcvelop offers the unique opportunity to combine first-in-class architectural design and development into investment projects, working with a growing number of private investors, JV Partners and it’s own growing portfolio. Arcvelop now has a breadth of projects across London, Kent, Norwich, Sheffield, Leeds and Nottingham.

🔥LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE to find out what kickstarted Marc's successful property career and how he works with investors to create outstanding developments across the UK.

This episode is sponsored by Merryoaks.

Merryoaks provides growth-based property finance advisory for investors and developers with the aim of helping you fund your next project and be part of your ongoing growth to bigger, better, and more aspirational deals.

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In this episode, Saam speaks to Jack Jiggens - Property Developer, Social Housing Investor, Land & Acquisitions Director at XP Property, and Co-Founder of XP Surveys.

Jack is responsible for finding, structuring and securing de-risked deals and has to date raised £14m in equity, and £41m in debt facilities across XP projects. Born into property, Jack started early on building sites with developing and flipping properties.

In recent years, Jack has built an ecosystem of award-winning and thriving property-related businesses across London and home counties alongside business partner Ben Richards; XP Property (SME Property Developers), XP Surveys (an industry-challenging measured building, topographical, 3D and drone surveyors) and Central Suites (fastest growing co-living property management portfolio across Oxfordshire which now consists of 120 beds, built in only 3 years).

Jack's role as CEO in Oparo Social helped the business and its partners build a £20m+ portfolio of Supported Housing stock, consisting of 114-beds across 14-assets in South London between 2020-2023.

This episode is sponsored by XP Surveys, who provide accurate measured and topographical surveys for residential and commercial properties.

The most sought-after Architects and Property Developers start their client journeys on the foundation of the right data. Fully referenced, accurate, and timely surveys, enhance your client experience, speed up their decision making, and improve your productivity. XP Surveys not only knows how to conduct the right measured building and/or topographical surveys to meet your technical needs, we know how to deliver them to best support your client relationships.

➡️ Learn more about XP Surveys here
🕹️ Try XP’s Instant Quoting Tool here

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In this episode, Saam speaks to Vanish Patel - successful property investor and developer, master networker and capital raiser.

Vanish Patel started his journey towards financial independence in the early 2000’s, when he quit his day job to become a full-time property investor.
 
Although working as an IT Contractor in central London enabled him to generate a good income, he knew that owning income-producing assets was the only way to achieve financial independence.
 
Vanish now has two decades of hands-on property experience and is an expert at finding and on-boarding private investors. This superpower has enabled him to accelerate the growth of his property business.
 
He loves helping new and experienced property investors learn how to fast track their journey towards financial independence by finding and on-boarding private investors.
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This episode is sponsored by PLMD Group.

PLMD Group is made up of PLMD Development, PLMD Estate Management and PLMD Capital.

PLMD Group provide expertise in real estate development combined with asset management. With more than 70 Build to Rent(BTR) properties and £20M+ assets under management, their extensive knowledge of local planning policies have resulted in a strong track record turning liabilities into valuable assets.

PLMD also help UK & overseas investors looking for value-add properties and ground-up green developments in the UK residential market, build to rent sector in London & its suburbs.

The group delivers value through a fusion of experience, innovative design, imagination, hands-on management and sustainable resources.

Find out more about PLMD Group here.

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Saam has 20 years of experience in residential & commercial property, sales, lettings, management and finance. Saam was a founding member of a Property Finance Provider which grew its fund from £0 to £300m. He also founded Merryoaks Property Finance in 2021 to provide bespoke property finance to investors & developers and launched Property People in 2018 to connect with investors and developers across the country to share valuable information and stories.

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In this episode, Saam speaks to Saif Derzi - award-winning Property Trader & Investor.

Having bought and sold over 200 properties, Saif has demonstrated a great track record in building and scaling a large scale property portfolio sustainably.

Saif runs a Property Cash Buying company day to day where he is one of the only companies nationwide to offer genuine cash offers to Property owners that need to sell their property within 2-4 weeks.

Watch the full episode to discover how Saif started his property trading business and the interesting ways he manages to continuously find lucrative property deals - regardless of market conditions.

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This episode is sponsored by Merryoaks.

Merryoaks provides growth-based property finance advisory for investors and developers with the aim of helping you fund your next project and be part of your ongoing growth to bigger, better, and more aspirational deals.

Find out more about Merryoaks here.

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Saam has 20 years of experience in residential & commercial property, sales, lettings, management and finance. Saam was a founding member of a Property Finance Provider which grew its fund from £0 to £300m. He also founded Merryoaks Property Finance in 2021 to provide bespoke property finance to investors & developers and launched Property People in 2018 to connect with investors and developers across the country to share valuable information and stories.

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In this episode, Saam speaks to Ben Richards - multiple award-winning business owner, architect and property developer.
 
Ben is the Owner of AURA Architecture and Interiors, and Co-Founder of XP Property (a property development business) and XP Surveys (a Measured Building and Topographical Survey business).

With 12 years in the construction industry working with Architects, Structural Engineers and as a Technical Manager for the Berkeley Group, Ben brings a technical prowess that lives for the detail.

His development project experience ranges from £50k refurbishments to £1Bn mixed-use schemes in central London and his role in XP Property is to lead the design and delivery teams to ensure our schemes are built successfully, on time and to budget.

LISTEN THE FULL EPISODE to learn how Ben navigates growth across multiple property businesses, how XP Property have raised over £14,000,000 in equity for development projects, and how he helps investors generate profitable returns from their development schemes.

This episode is sponsored by XP Surveys.

The most sought-after Architects and Property Developers start their client journeys on the foundation of the right data. Fully referenced, accurate, and timely surveys, enhance your client experience, speed up their decision making, and improve your productivity. XP Surveys not only knows how to conduct the right measured building and/or topographical surveys to meet your technical needs, we know how to deliver them to best support your client relationships.

➡️ Learn more about XP Surveys here
🕹️ Try XP’s Instant Quoting Tool here

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Saam has 20 years of experience in residential & commercial property, sales, lettings, management and finance. Saam was a founding member of a Property Finance Provider which grew its fund from £0 to £300m. He also founded Merryoaks Property Finance in 2021 to provide bespoke property finance to investors & developers and launched Property People in 2018 to connect with investors and developers across the country to share valuable information and stories.

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In this episode, Saam speaks to Michael Bristow - CEO of CrowdProperty, the UK’s leading specialist property development lending platform.

Mike has built an 8-figure personal property portfolio and a portfolio of over 25 PropTech, FinTech and tech businesses with multiple £100m+ exits to date.

He was named 'Entrepreneur of the Year' in 2020 and 'Business Person of the Year' in 2022 at the Midlands Business Awards, a national finalist in 'Tech Entrepreneur of the Year' in the renowned Go:Tech Awards 2022.

He is also a founding board member of the Innovate Finance 36H Fintech Group and sits on the Pi Labs Investment Committee (Europe’s most prolific specialist proptech venture capital fund) as a voting member and is an LP in Funds I, II & III and a mentor to portfolio businesses.

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This episode is sponsored by PLMD Group.

PLMD Group is made up of PLMD Development, PLMD Estate Management and PLMD Capital.

PLMD Group provide expertise in real estate development combined with asset management. With more than 70 Build to Rent(BTR) properties and £20M+ assets under management, their extensive knowledge of local planning policies have resulted in a strong track record turning liabilities into valuable assets.

PLMD also help UK & overseas investors looking for value-add properties and ground-up green developments in the UK residential market, build to rent sector in London & its suburbs.

The group delivers value through a fusion of experience, innovative design, imagination, hands-on management and sustainable resources.

Find out more about PLMD Group here.

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Saam has 20 years of experience in residential & commercial property, sales, lettings, management and finance. Saam was a founding member of a Property Finance Provider which grew its fund from £0 to £300m. He also founded Merryoaks Property Finance in 2021 to provide bespoke property finance to investors & developers and launched Property People in 2018 to connect with investors and developers across the country to share valuable information and stories.

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In this episode of Property People, Saam speaks to Dave Forde - Chartered Construction Manager, Property Developer, Construction Consultant.

Dave has 42 years experience across all sectors of the Construction and Engineering industries including industrial, commercial, pharmaceutical, residential, healthcare and rail and for the past 20 years he has been involved in major infrastructure projects in London.

Dave also runs a multi-disciplinary chartered consultancy working with construction companies, private clients and property developers and is a property developer with extensive experience  completing successful profitable property refurbishments and developments.

Watch the full episode to learn some of the major mistakes developers makes when it comes to managing construction as well as some valuable tips to successfully achieve a profitable development project.
 
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This episode is sponsored by PLMD Group.

PLMD Group is made up of PLMD Development, PLMD Estate Management and PLMD Capital.

PLMD Group provide expertise in real estate development combined with asset management. With more than 70 Build to Rent(BTR) properties and £20M+ assets under management, their extensive knowledge of local planning policies have resulted in a strong track record turning liabilities into valuable assets.

PLMD also help UK & overseas investors looking for value-add properties and ground-up green developments in the UK residential market, build to rent sector in London & its suburbs.

The group delivers value through a fusion of experience, innovative design, imagination, hands-on management and sustainable resources.

Find out more about PLMD Group here.

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Saam has 20 years of experience in residential & commercial property, sales, lettings, management and finance. Saam was a founding member of a Property Finance Provider which grew its fund from £0 to £300m. He also founded Merryoaks Property Finance in 2021 to provide bespoke property finance to investors & developers and launched Property People in 2018 to connect with investors and developers across the country to share valuable information and stories.

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